Accident | |
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Date | 12 September 2012 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error. |
Site | Mount Pyatibratka, Russia 58°57′00″N160°19′08″E / 58.9500°N 160.3190°E |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Antonov An-28 |
Operator | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise |
ICAO flight No. | PTK251 |
Call sign | PETROKAM 251 |
Registration | RA-28715 |
Flight origin | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport, Russia |
Destination | Palana Airport, Russia |
Occupants | 14 |
Passengers | 12 |
Crew | 2 |
Fatalities | 10 |
Injuries | 4 |
Survivors | 4 |
On 12 September 2012 at about 12:20 local time (00:20 UTC), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251, operated by an Antonov An-28, crashed while attempting to land at Palana Airport in Russia. [1] Both pilots were killed, together with 8 of the 12 passengers. All 4 survivors were in serious condition. The aircraft descended below minima on approach in instrument meteorological conditions and impacted a forested slope. Alcohol was found in the blood of both flight crew.
On 6 July 2021, an Antonov An-26 assigned to the same flight route and number also crashed while on its approach to land at Palana Airport.
The aircraft was a twin-turboprop Antonov An-28, registration RA-28715, built in 1989 with serial number 1AJ006-25. [2]
An Antonov An-28 passenger plane operated by Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise, was destroyed in an accident near Palana Airport, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia.
Flight 251 was operating on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan. Weather at the destination airport Palana included a visibility of 6000 m and a cloud base at 470 m, within limits for an approach and landing at Palana. The crew were cleared for an approach to runway 11. The approach to Palana consists of a flight to the NDB beacon above the minimum safe altitude of 2150 m, followed by entering a holding pattern, and a descent for the approach. The crew did not fly to the NDB. The flight was 22 km from the NDB when the crew reported being overhead.
Descent was initiated until the airplane struck trees at 320 m above sea level on the wooded slope of Mount Pyatibratka. [3]
The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) have released their final report on February 2013 concluding the probable causes of the crash were:
non-compliance of the crew with the published approach procedure, descending below minimum height prematurely while flying in mountainous terrain in weather conditions that prevented consistent visual contact with the ground. This led to a controlled flight into the slopes of a mountain, the destruction of the aircraft and fatalities amongst the crew and passengers. [4]
Contributing factors were:
Following deficiencies were identified leading to the crash:
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